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A poor child living in poverty is chosen out of millions of children to attend Madame Mao's dancing ballet. His life drastically shifted from living in poverty to studying dance.
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Table of Contents
Part one: My childhood
1. Home
2. My Niang and Dia
3. A commune childhood
4. The seven of us
5. Na-na
6. Chairman Mao's classroom
7. Leaving home
Part two: Beijing
8. Feather in a whirlwind
9. The caged bird
10. That first lonely year
11. The pen
12. My own voice
13. Teacher Xio's words
14. Turning points
15. The mango
16. Change
17. On the way to the West
18. The filthy capitalist America
19. Good-bye, China
Part 3: The West
20. Return to the land of freedom
21. Elizabeth
22. Defection
23. My new life
24. A millet dream come true
25. No more nightmares
26. Russia
27. Mary
28. Going home
29. Back in my village
30. Another wedding: Qingdao, 1988.
Edition Notes
Originally published: New York : Putnam, c2003.
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